While candles, images of saints, and other idols are common in households in Puerto Rico, the meanings owners ascribe to them can be unexpected. Laura Sofía Pérez, still from "How to love a place so ...

The driving force behind this unity can be attributed to the long-standing syncretic traditions in Indian society. In India, the multicultural social setup has been strengthened through improvisations ...

KARACHI: The banks of the Indus River have witnessed the rise of not one but two major religions in the subcontinent. Some 4,000 years ago, Hinduism flourished and grew in the fertile lands along the ...

Dr Zulfiqar Ali Kalhoro, an anthropologist by education and profession, has become a household name for his immense contributions to scholarship on the heritage and culture of Sindh. His latest book, ...

In our hunger for knowledge, we float along with a wide variety of misinformation. “It is not what we do not know that hurts us. It is what we know for sure that is not so” —–Mark Twain. In the past, ...

The New Frontier line-up for the 2019 Sundance Film Festival has recently been announced and Anamika Haksar’s debut feature film Ghode Ko Jalebi Khilane Le Ja Riya Hoon is the only Indian film to have ...

We all live in language. Our first language is the boundary of our thought and all else is translation, an attempt to leap across the limits of our existence. I was born in a Hindi-speaking family ...

Syncretic Press founder Enrique Morás of Wilmington publishes children's books from authors around the Spanish-speaking world in an effort to connect kids to a broader culture. (Courtesy of Enrique ...

Laura Sofía Pérez, still from "How to love a place so the children will love their land" (2023), video installation (courtesy the artist) New Devotions at the Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & ...